Digital BW, The Print

Mark Tucker wrote:

> SKID Photography
> <skid@b...> wrote:
> Ask any artist who has been represented by a gallery or
> dealer...They 'sell'
> > branding.  Should he or she tell their dealer that they are
> changing artistic directions, and the dealers
> > absolutely *panic*.
>
>
> Don't you know, secretly, very secretly, that William Wegman is
> just sick of carting around those damn dogs... Don't you just
> know that he panics at the thought of having to do new work;
> loading them up again in the stationwagon, buying the dog
> clothes, getting the doggie downers down their throats, etc.
>
> Can you imagine how restricting that would be? "Can I just shoot
> a non-dog picture for a change...?"
>
> The guy's probably made a mint by now, (and I'd personally say
> that he's ready for a change), but I wonder if he really loves it, or if
> he's just milking it.
>
> It's fresh on my mind because he was featured this morning on
> "Sunday Morning", about a new book called something like "A
> Sense of Place". And you know he always gets the TV coverage,
> because dogs always make good TV, and even better if they're in
> human clothing.
>
> I'm not slamming him, but it crossed my mind this morning while
> watching that if he's kinda "in a rut", if you know what I mean...

It's probably his gravy train, and I suspect that he *is* tired of them (the dogs), but he does do a lot of
other multi media work as well.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC



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